[LikeLight]

My take on this from the other day (ahead of the MSM as usual) is here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128330/posts

[spodefly]

"It is quite likely he would choose a woman or a minority," said Nathaniel Persily, a law professor at Columbia University in New York. "If he could find a Hispanic woman, that would be ideal, the best choice," he added.

Based on their hiring criteria, a gay, black woman, or a transgendered hispanic, or a left-handed, red-headed Asian bisexual would be the perfect choice.

[spodefly]

"It is quite likely he would choose a woman or a minority," said Nathaniel Persily, a law professor at Columbia University in New York. "If he could find a Hispanic woman, that would be ideal, the best choice," he added.

Based on their hiring criteria, a gay, black woman, or a transgendered hispanic, or a left-handed, red-headed Asian bisexual would be the perfect choice.

[TheBattman]

Well, we do know that at least one has been putting off retirement specifically so that Bush wouldn’t have another appointee.

[Ron C.]

Not two - I’m betting he will nominate three... and one of them just might be Hillary... or so goes the story from her supporters who believe that was in a deal she made with the O.

However it turns out, we’ll see the court lurch hard left before this thing is over.

[Dallas59]

Lenin and Marx?

[Carley]

Two ultra lib commies to replace two ultra lib commies.

Thank God we have Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia.

The Presidents Bush did us proud.

[Rembrandt]

The author suffers from the Mary Hartmann Mary Hartmann disease.

[dbacks]

Republicans need to put up just enough of a fight to force the dems to proclaim that a liberal leaning Justice must be replaced in kind. That way, when a conservative Justice comes along we can say the same.

[babubabu]

I read somewhere that he was only a lecturer. If this is true, then teh media is REALLY marketing this guy.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Thank the 20 percenters.. and I plan to remind them every day for the next four years.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

So, let's see a show of hands of people who think that Stevens is planning to do the honorable thing that former Supreme Court justices traditionally did --- namely timing their retirements to occur when a President was in the White House who was of the same party as the President who put them on the Supreme Court?

I remember hearing of this when Byron White retired in '93. He had been appointed by a Democrat : JFK. He never really changed his politics much in his 30+ years on the USSC, which meant that the extreme leftward lurch of the Democrats during those decades had the effect of redefining White from conservative to liberal.

You might remember him as the dissenter on Roe v Wade who correctly and bitingly described it as "an exercise in raw judicial power".

But even though he had much, much more in common with Republicans than with Democrats by 1990 when he was about ready to retire, he purposely delayed his retirement while the GOP was still in the White House, and waited until just after Clinton took office. Even though a Republican-appointed Justice would have been much more in tune with his judicial philosophy, he remained true to the old traditional "honorable" way of doing things, and retired during a Democrat administration.

And a few years before that, Democrat Justice Thurgood Marshall attempted to do the same. (Although it's unclear whether he did this out of a sense of honor, or because he had lurched leftward with the post-60s Democrats and desperately wanted to be replaced with someone of his same persuasion). But the Democrats remained in the wilderness outside the White House walls for so long - 12 years to be exact - that Marshall's health made it impossible for him to outlast Reagan and GHW Bush.

So now, let's look at J. P. Stevens. He was appointed by a Republican - Nixon. This means that following the honorable old tradition would require him to attempt to retire during a GOP Presidency. He's had that chance for the past 8 years. What do you think are the odds that he either plans to retire in the next 2 months, or to outlast the upcoming Democrat reign?

[Lancey Howard]

Certainly, 0bama will nominate judges who rule based on the chic political correctness of the day rather than concern themselves with that antiquated old parchment known as the Constitution, but as long as we have four justices who take the Constitution seriously and one who flips a coin on it, the damage could be limited.

Our one and only consolation is that the hyper-partisan hack 0bama will likely only be replacing liberals with liberals. Still, if only we had won the election and been given the opportunity to replace liberals with decent judges, America might have had the chance to return from the dead.

Oh well.

[Lancey Howard]

Here's a piece of history that all the liberal political correctness in the world can't change:

[Impy]

If one of ours get’s sick or something the nation is ****ed.

We really needed Stevens and/or Ginsberg to pass on in 2005.

[Fresh Wind]

President-elect Barack Obama may have the rare chance to appoint two judges to the Supreme Court...

Didn't Bush do this?

"If he could find a Hispanic woman, that would be ideal, the best choice," he added.

Oh, wonderful. The One could prove himself to be a racist and a sexist at the same time.

[Fred]

Barack Hussein Al-Jimmy Carter Obama could appoint Michelle Obama, she is an attorney...

[this is my country]

We need a miracle to stop this from happening.